10 Easy Halloween Recipes for Kids [Excitingly Scary]

10 Easy Halloween Recipes for Kids [Excitingly Scary]

The following 10 easy Halloween recipes for kids will definitely help you make for their Halloween party excitingly scary!

Easy Halloween Party for Kids

Halloween will be here soon! We loved celebrating Halloween with our three children. Every Halloween they would invite their friends over for supper we would prepare (with easy Halloween recipes for kids) before they ventured out to Trick or Treat together. The kids would help me prepare the special easy Halloween recipes for their party food and easy creative decorations to add to the festivities.

My husband and I would both dress up in our own Halloween costumes. I was usually dressed in black as an old hag witch with mask, kerchief, shawl, long skirt, and boots. Their dad created a different homemade costume every year. The best was his Frankenstein costume. His funniest costume was when he dressed as a clown wearing one of my maternity dresses (he’s 10 inches taller!). The most popular one with the neighborhood kids was when he tricked them into believing there was a ghoulish dummy on the front porch – only it was good old dad – moving just at the moment when the Trick or Treaters reached for the candy bowl.

Now make the rats. Using a measuring cup, scoop out 1/4 cup (50 mL) of the ground beef mixture. Form it, by hand, into a firmly packed teardrop shape — pointy on one end, rounded on the other. This is your basic rat. Place it into a 3-quart (3 liter) shallow baking dish and gently pinch in the neck area. Poke a piece of uncooked spaghetti into the larger rounded end as a tail. Repeat with the remaining ground beef mixture.

When all the rats are neatly placed in the baking dish, stir together the tomatoes, water, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, remaining 1 tsp. (5 mL) of salt and 1/4 tsp. (1 mL) pepper. Pour over the rats. Cover the dish with foil wrap (or a lid, if it has one) and bake at 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) for 45 minutes. Uncover and continue to bake for another 45 to 50 minutes, basting occasionally with sauce, or until the rice is tender and the rats are fully cooked.

Gently remove rats, one at a time, from the sauce and place gently on a serving platter. (Take care not to damage the tails — they’re fairly delicate.) Into each rat, insert two carrot slices as ears, peppercorns (or whatever) for eyes, and a few more broken strands of uncooked spaghetti for whiskers. Spoon sauce around the rats and serve, smiling wickedly.

Place 1 cup HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Chocolate Chips or HERSHEY’S Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips and 1 tablespoon shortening (do not use butter, margarine, spread or oil) in small microwave-safe bowl.

Microwave at MEDIUM (50%) 1 minute; stir. If necessary, microwave at MEDIUM an additional 15 seconds at a time, stirring after each heating, just until chips are melted and mixture is smooth when stirred.

Combine butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla in large bowl. Beat on high speed of mixer 3 minutes.

Stir together flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt and baking powder; add alternately with water to butter mixture, beating just until blended.

Fill prepared muffin cups about 1/2 full with batter. Place chocolate piece in center of each. Bake 20 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly in center. Remove from cups to wire rack. Cool completely.

Tint frosting with red and yellow food color to make orange. Frost cupcakes with orange frosting. Cut up candies to make “monster” faces. Yields about 2-1/2 dozen cupcakes.

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Jersey Shore Grandmother of 5 great kids, retired special ed high school teacher, married since 1972 to Poppy...loves spoiling the grands, crocheting for whomever I can and charities, reading, crafts, outdoors, blogging...and retirement.

2 Comments

What a good mom you were! I always had a hard time getting any kind of dinner prepared for my kids before the doorbell started ringing with trick-or-treaters. I do love the idea of a Halloween dinner, though. Since Halloween’s on a Saturday this year, maybe I’ll do it with my grands on Friday night. I love the worm sandwiches!